So, Time Skip is said to be Time Stop by
characters and some
WoG statements, that much would indicate that he is stopping time when paired up with some scenes like
these two......but it isn't that simple
Firstly Vados
directly says otherwise about the Time Skip being time stop, saying that it is simply time travel instead, which is even more evidence when taking the original
japanese translation into account, which would contradict the WoG statements regarding the nature of the Time Skip, and then there is scenes where Goku moves while Hit is performing the Time Skip, before he goes Kaioken and "surpasses it" such as this
one where Goku is in a very specific position with his feet very close to Hit's face, the sound cue for Hit activating his Time Skip and then suddenly Goku is a very different position entirely, blocking off Hit's attack, we know for a fact he activated the Time Skip as Goku was attacking, therefore the only way for him to have moved to such a different position in reaction to Hit's attack, is if he moved mid Time Skip alongside Hit, if Hit was time stopping then Goku would somehow need to completely blitz Hit entirely to move so fast that he wouldn't noticed he was moving in the few moments after the Time Skip ends....which given the scale of both in the fights is impossible as Hit can keep up with Goku several times in the fight and another moment where Goku
blatantly reacts to the attacks mid time skip even changing his battle stance in between, so the ability isn't Time Stop at all? well...
In
this scene(can't find it subbed or in English for the life of me) as well as
this one when we clearly see the Time Stoping effect on Goku, Hit says that he "advanced" his Time Skip, so some have suggested that "Time Skip" is simply an umbrella term for all of Hit's Time based abilities, which seems to be confirmed by Hit's fight with Dyspo in which both
called his Dimensional ability "
Time Skip", so all solved, both are different techniques on the umbrella term that is "Time Skip".....right? well no, first of all, this contradicts the after mentioned Vados statement, in which she spoke of the Time Skip as an specific ability that can't Time Stop, instead only Time Traveling, with the episode itself going against this umbrella notion as well, since the Dimensional ability said to be Time Skip in the Hit vs Dyspo is said in
the second match between Goku and Hit to not be Time Skip at all, which was an important narrative aspect of the fight, also thinking logically this "umbrella" term is flawed, as if Hit "evolved" his Time Travel into Time Stop instead......,then Goku wouldn't have any answer to the Time Stop, as that one he never was shown resisting after the supposed point where it became time stop, making the statements of it not working on Goku baseless from Hit's perspective, thus even the "umbrella" term solution has major contradictions in it, so how do we solve this? simple, do both
My suggestion is to lable Time Skip as this:
Time Travel or Time Stop (With his Time Skip Hit is able to travel through time up to 0.5 seconds to attack opponents, but there is far too many inconsistencies and contradictions to the technique regarding it usage, it equally shows and is stated to be time stopping instead while simultaneously stated and shown to not be time stop at all) or something along these lines, with Goku resisting it being labeled as a "possibly resistance" to Time Stop and a note underneath in the profile explaining the inconsistencies of the Time Skip, this way we can cover this self contradicting ability on a fair angle for both contradictory depictions and finally move on from it
i made my summary, you can tag staff now
also you can give an opinion on it while at it?
Very late now, will go to sleep shortly, good night everyone
